- My understanding is that OCSP stapling stops leaks, because the browser can get OCSP data from the server instead of needing to fetch it separately.

- Last I heard, Firefox was in the process of removing OCSP responder checks (precisely for privacy reasons) in favor of CRLite-based revocation checks—are you sure they didn’t remove whatever setting you’re referring to from the UI because it’s no longer relevant?

[1] You “update” by overwriting the entire file. This is remarkably fast and means that there’s no overhead/tracking for empty space, but it does mean you probably want this to be a fairly rare operation.

I rolled my own cdb reader library for a project a few years ago, and wrote up my notes on the format and its internals here: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2022-12-03-cdb-file-format

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> there are about 230 billion* links that need visiting

> * Thanks to arkiver on the Archive Team IRC for correcting this number.

Also when running the Warrior project you could see it iterating through the range. I don't have any logs handy since the project is finished but they looked a bit like

  https://goo.gl/gEdpoS: 404 Not Found
  https://goo.gl/gEdpoT: 404 Not Found
  https://goo.gl/gEdpoU: 302 Found -> https://...
  https://goo.gl/gEdpoV: 404 Not Found

  const template = ({name}) => `hello ${name}`;
  const n1 = template({ name: 'joe' });

- Confusing and buggy UI causing clerks to duplicate or mis-enter transactions

- Inventory getting “stuck” in branches after the product was discontinued; the attempt to remove it hid the inventory but caused its value to reappear on the books again each accounting period

- Failing touch screens entering spurious purchases overnight

- Incomplete rollback of distributed transactions

- Byzantine failures during hardware replacement causing multiple transactions to be assigned the same ID and overwrite each other

- Fujitsu employees with unaudited write access to the production database making one-off modifications

- The point of sale system simply telling the clerk to give too much change back to the customer

There’s no “one bug” here; the main failure was that those responsible continued to dismiss any problems as users being either in error or outright malicious, despite massive amounts of evidence that the system had technical flaws. Better quality software would have reduced the problems, but no system is bug-free and in many cases very little effort was made to identify the root causes of problems, much less to prevent similar ones from happening again.

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A brief and reductive explanation: The Religious Society of Friends (colloquially “Quakers”) are a religious movement (nominally Christian, in practice often agnostic) which originated in England circa 1650. A core part of the theology is that God might speak to anyone, so worship generally consists of sitting around in silence until someone hears from Him and stands up to repeat the message, hence why the article is drawing parallels between that practice and Zen Buddhism.

They had no idea that

You may be thinking of Brendan Eich? Berners-Lee is famous for HTML, HTTP, the first web browser, and the World Wide Web in general; as far as I know he had nothing to do with JS.